Subject: Re: Two Questions re De Daumier-Smith
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 20:58:26 GMT
>From my reading, I think that the "musical chairs" bit is a comment on
a) the incredible amount of people milling about on the streets of
Manhattan,
2) the ridiculous amount of difficulty encountered in trying to get a seat
on a bus there despite how many people are milling about in the street
(and/or how much of this inexplicable milling appears to be people just
going from one bus to another),
and
d) how much the narrator hates a, 2, and Manhattan in general.
It could very well be that people were really playing Musical Chairs in the
streets with the seats from the buses, but where would the music have been
coming from?
regards,
buzz
From: "Chris Kubica @Home" <ckubica@home.com>
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Two Questions re De Daumier-Smith
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:20:58 -0500
1) Was Nine Stories the first place this story appeared?
2) At one point the main character makes reference to a "huge game of
Musical Chairs" being played in the street in front of the Ritz. Is this
literal (was Musical Chairs a "thing" in NYC at this time) or is it slang
for some other activity I'm not aware of?
CDK
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